Dear Respected
Comrade Kim Jong Un’s Speech
at the Military
Parade Held
to Celebrate
Comrade Kim Il
Sung’s 100th Birth Anniversary
April
15, Juch 101(2012)
Officers and
men of the three services and strategic rocket force of the heroic Korean
People’s Army and officers and men of the Korean People’s Internal Security
Forces,
Members of
the Worker-Peasant Red Guards and Young Red Guards,
Working
people across the country and Pyongyang
citizens,
Compatriots
in south Korea
and abroad,
Comrades and
friends,
Today, with a
great national pride and dignity, we are holding a military parade in
celebration of the centenary of the birth of the great leader Comrade Kim Il
Sung.
This military
parade, unprecedented of its kind in the history of the KPA, is a grand
festival of victors, arranged by the noble intention and personal proposal of
the great Comrade Kim Jong Il to glorify the immortal exploits achieved
by the great Comrade Kim Il Sung in army building and demonstrate to the
whole world the might of powerful socialist Korea.
Availing myself
of this significant opportunity, I would like to extend, in reflection of the
boundless feeling cherished by all the service personnel and people, the
highest respect and greatest glory to Comrades Kim Il Sung and Kim
Jong Il, banners of all victories, who founded and built up our
revolutionary armed forces.
My respect
also goes to the fighters of the anti-Japanese revolution and soldiers of the
KPA, who dedicated their precious lives to the independence and sovereignty of
their country and the freedom of their fellow people.
I warmly
congratulate the officers and men of the KPA and the KPISF, members of the
Workers-Peasant Red Guards and Young red Guards and all other people, who have
greeted the meaningful anniversary days of this year with proud successes in
strengthening combat capabilities and bringing about a great revolutionary
upsurge by displaying an unexcelled heroic spirit and devotion at the national
defence posts and construction sites of a thriving country.
I extend warm
greetings to the compatriots in south
Korea and abroad, who are devoting their all
to the patriotic cause for achieving reunification and prosperity of their
motherland, and express gratitude to the foreign friends who are rendering
active support and encouragement to the just cause of our people.
Comrades,
The 100-year
history of the great Kim Il Sung’s nation is a history that clearly
proves the iron truth that outstanding leaders assure the self-respect and
prosperity of a country and nation.
The Korean
nation, though it had been proud of its 5000-year-long history and brilliant
culture, had to regard sycophancy to big countries and national ruin as its
fate because it had not received correct leadership and had had no strength
with which to defend itself. It was the image of our nation a century ago, the
image of the miserable colonial country.
However, the
100-year history of Kim Il Sung’s nation put a final end to the history
full of vicissitudes, and has raised the dignity of our country and nation to
the highest level in their history.
The
geopolitical position of the country is the same as ever, but the weak country
of yesterday which was trodden underfoot as a theatre of wrangling among big
powers to expand the sphere of their influence, has now been turned into a proud
political and military power and our people are demonstrating their dignity as
an independent people whom no one dares to provoke.
These
miraculous changes that have taken place in the destiny of our nation are not
just a fortuitous event which resulted from the lapse of time but an inevitable
outcome of history brought about by the great President Kim Il Sung and
General Kim Jong Il, who pioneered and led the Songun revolution.
As they were
led by the peerlessly great leaders, who built up the elite revolutionary armed
forces, regarding giving priority to arms as the fundamentals of the
revolution, our country and people could bring about radical changes in their
destiny and see today’s grand festival, which will demonstrate to the whole
world the strength of Songun Korea.
President Kim
Il Sung, having clarified in his early years the iron truth that arms are
precisely the lifeline of a nation and the victory of the revolution, founded
in the forests of Paektu 80 years ago the Korean People’s Revolutionary Army
made up of fine sons and daughters of the people, the first Juche-type
revolutionary armed force of Korea.
With the
founding of the KPRA, our people could have their own genuine army for the first
time in their history, and this marked the beginning of the glorious history of
the Korean revolution which would advance on the strength of arms.
Comrade Kim
Il Sung, who put primary efforts into strengthening the revolutionary armed
forces throughout his revolutionary career, worked military miracles of the 20th
century by defeating two imperialist powers, the most ferocious forces in the
world, in his generation, developed the KPA into a-match-for-a-hundred powerful
revolutionary army and accomplished arming all the people and making the whole
country fortified, thus providing a solid military guarantee for ensuring the
sovereignty of the country and everlasting prosperity of the nation.
General Kim
Jong Il, regarding carrying forward and accomplishing the Juche-oriented
revolutionary cause of Songun as his lifelong mission, ushered in the golden
age of the development of our revolutionary armed forces by dint of his
uncommon wisdom, outstanding military commandership and matchless courage.
In the
grimmest period ever witnessed in our revolution, he developed the KPA into the
ranks of an elite force, ensured successive victories in the unprecedented
struggle to defend socialism and performed the huge historic exploit of raising
the status of our country to that of a world-class military power by administering
the ever-victorious Songun politics.
Under the
leadership of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, our
armed forces gave full play to their dignity as an army distinctive in their
revolutionary character and unparalleled in their militant temperament and
might.
The course of
proud struggle traversed by our revolutionary armed forces has witnessed
do-or-die show-downs with imperialist powers and grand construction campaigns
for laying eternal foundations for the country’s prosperity.
In the course
of this, our revolutionary armed forces have remained boundlessly faithful to
their first and foremost mission as a genuine army of the leader and the Party,
and lived up to the expectations of the country and people with credit.
The noble
spirit of defending the leader unto death, created by the anti-Japanese
guerrillas, has been the absolute motto of our army and the source of its
mental strength and combat efficiency, as well as a precious tradition for the
later generations.
The KPA has
been the first to hold up the banner of death-defying defence of the leaders
and has taken the lead in staunchly safeguarding the lifeline of the Juche
revolution in the days of both glory and trials; this constitutes the greatest
of exploits it has performed for the revolution.
The history
of our army, which made its start with two pistols and has developed into a
matchless force that terrifies the imperialist aggressors, is unprecedented in
the world history of army building.
In the long
period from its founding to the present, it fought a guerrilla war, a regular
war and a showdown without gunshot; in the course of this, it has acquired
all-powerful, Juche-oriented combat methods and accumulated experiences in
achieving only victory, and developed into
powerful armed forces possessed of the means of both attack and defence of our
own style that are fully capable of coping with modern warfare of any type.
The military
and technological edge is no longer the monopoly of imperialists, and the era
is gone forever when the enemy would threaten us with atomic bombs. Today’s
grand military demonstration will be clear proof of this.
Since the
very day when it was named after people, the KPA, as the defender of the
country and artist of people’s happiness, has left remarkable traces in the
building of a prosperous and powerful country.
The
monumental edifices that have sprung up in all parts of the country and the
numerous socialist assets that render a contribution to people’s living are all
permeated with the precious blood and sweat of our service personnel.
The powerful revolutionary
army of Mt. Paektu with great pride in being army of
the leader, the Party and the people and with invincible might is the most
important heritage that the great generalissimos left for their beloved
country, and to have such valuable inheritance is a great blessing and a source
of pride for our Party and people.
The heroic KPA which recorded only victories has assured the glorious
100-year history of Juche Korea,
and this constitutes a sure guarantee for the everlasting history of Kim Il Sung’s nation, Kim
Jong Il’s Korea.
Shining for
all eternity in the history of our motherland will be the sacred revolutionary
careers and immortal exploits of President Kim Il Sung and General Kim
Jong Il who opened the new history of national independence by blazing the
trail fraught with hardships for the Songun revolution and laid a solid basis
for the prosperity of the country and for the happiness of all the generations
to come.
Comrades,
Today we stand at the watershed in history marking the start of a new
century of the Juche era.
Now is a
responsible and important period requiring us who learned the revolution from
General Kim Jong Il to be more energetic than any other time.
The 4th
Conference of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the 5th Session of the
12th Supreme People’s Assembly, historic meetings held a few days
ago, acclaimed General Kim Jong Il as the eternal leader of our
revolution, as the eternal general secretary of the Workers’ Party of Korea and
the eternal Chairman of the National Defence Commission of our Republic.
This is an
expression of the unshakeable will of our Party, army and people to inherit and
accomplish the revolutionary cause of Juche pioneered on Mt. Paektu without any
deviation and without any concession as the President and the General did,
holding aloft the great banner of Kimilsungism-Kimjongilism.
The permanent
strategy of our revolution and its final victory lie in going straight along
the road of independence, the road of Songun, the road of socialism, indicated
by President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il.
If we are to
add eternal glory to the dignity of Songun Korea and bring to successful
completion the cause of building a thriving socialist country, we should, above
all else, strengthen the KPA in every way.
The KPA
should remain reliable vanguard and solid cornerstone of the Songun revolution,
which is ready to blaze the trail under the leadership of the Party and firmly
guarantee its cause by force of arms.
What cannot
be changed even though the times may elapse and one generation may be replaced
by another is the original revolutionary form of our army which bears
resemblance to President Kim Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il and
the fighting mode of the revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu which advances
holding high the red flag of the Workers’ Party as its first banner.
The KPA
should intensify the movement for winning the title of O Jong Hup-led 7th
Regiment as required by the developing situation, so as to turn itself into
today’s 7th Regiment which is fully equipped with the spirit of
becoming human rifles and bombs, a spirit cherished by the anti-Japanese
guerrillas.
It should
thoroughly apply our Party’s Juche-oriented military ideas and lines to its
military and political work and establish more firmly the revolutionary command
system, so as to become an integral whole, which is ideologically pure and
highly organized and which shares the Party’s ideology, breathes the same
breath with it and keeps pace with it.
It should conduct training more intensively as the anti-Japanese
guerrillas did on Mt. Paektu, so as to prepare all its officers and men to be
fully-ready combatants, who have acquired the ever-victorious Kim Il Sung’s
and Kim Jong Il’s strategies and tactics, mode of bold attack and
all-round practical abilities, and perfect its regular aspects as befits an
elite revolutionary force which is strong in discipline and excellent within
and without.
The entire
army having become an entity of comrades-in-arms and all the service personnel
and people having formed a harmonious whole around the Party – this is the real
might of the KPA, and herein lies the main key to strengthening its military
strength.
Upholding the
slogan “Let all the service personnel become true comrades-in-arms!” the KPA
should give fuller scope to the traditional trait of unity between officers and
men, and the entire army should become a unit of comrades-in-arms, who share
blood and life on the road of the Songun revolution.
Officers and
men are all valuable comrades-in-arms of the Supreme Commander. What I believe
is not any of the modern military hardware, like guns or rockets, but the dear
rank-and-file solders; the Supreme Commander as well as officers exists for
them.
All the
officers should take warm care of their men with the feeling of their eldest
brothers and sisters and as their true comrades-in-arms, and make it their
habit to make devoted efforts until their shoes are worn out.
Army-people
unity is the roots of our society and the great foundation of the Songun
revolution.
By inheriting
the traditions of the anti-Japanese guerrilla army, the KPA should always take
the lead and be a forerunner in consolidating the great army-people unity.
It should continue to hold high the slogan “Help the people!” set forth
by General Kim
Jong Il.
Officers and
men of the KPA should fulfill the duty of the army of the people by doing many
more things for the benefit of the people with a feeling of doing them for their
own parents and brothers and of taking care of their own homes.
It is a firm
determination of our Party to ensure that our people, who are the best in the
world and who have remained faithful to the Party in the face of all manner of
difficulties, do not have to tighten their belts again, but enjoy all the
benefits of socialism.
We should cultivate
with care the valuable seeds, which the great General sowed for the building of
an economic power and the improvement of the people’s standard of living, and
bring them to brilliant fruition.
Single-hearted
unity and invincible military might plus the industrial revolution in the new
century is just the thriving socialist country.
By making the
flames of the industrial revolution in the new century and the flames of Hamnam
flare up more fiercely, we should take the road of building an economic power
in a comprehensive way.
Officers and
men of the KPA should continuously display the might of the powerful
revolutionary army, which does not know the word impossible, and make
breakthroughs in the great upsurge on all the major fronts for the building of
an economic power and improving of the people’s standard of living.
All the
officials, Party members and other working people should raise the wind of achieving
great innovations and upsurge for leaping forward from one decade to another on
all the fronts of socialist construction, taking their cue from the mettle of
fighting and way of creating of the KPA that never fails to see what it does
through to the finish at a go once it is determined.
Peace is very
valuable for our Party and the government of the DPRK that are making efforts
to attain the general goal of building a thriving nation and improving the
people’s living standards. But more valuable for us are the nation’s dignity
and the country’s independence.
In order to
reliably safeguard the dignity and independence of our Republic and assure
genuine peace and the county’s security, all the officers and men of the KPA
should firmly defend our Party’s cause of building a thriving nation by force
of arms, always preserving its revolutionary nature and maintaining full combat
readiness.
It is,
indeed, heartrending that our compatriots who lived as a homogeneous nation in
the same territory for long have suffered the pain of division for nearly 70
years.
Our Party and
the government of the DPRK will join hands with anyone who sincerely wishes the
reunification of the country and peace and prosperity of the nation, and make
responsible and persevering efforts to realize the historic cause of the
country’s reunification.
Comrades,
Our cause is
just, and the strength of Korea
fostered by truth is inexhaustible.
As President Kim
Il Sung and General Kim Jong Il, who live in the hearts of all the
service personnel of the KPA and the people across the country, wish our bright
future, and as we have the matchless revolutionary army of Mt. Paektu, the invincible
great army-people unity and the faithful people who support the cause of the
Party with conscience and the sense of obligation, we are sure to emerge
victorious.
I will always be a comrade-in-arms of my comrades, sharing the same
destiny with them on the sacred road of the Songun revolution, and true to the
behests of General Kim Jong Il fulfill the responsibility I have
assumed for the country and the revolution.
Let us all
fight vigorously united firmly in one mind and one will as befit the
descendants of President Kim Il Sung and the soldiers and devoted
followers of General Kim Jong Il.
The flags bearing the beaming images of President Kim Il Sung and
General Kim Jong Il will further flutter forever in the van of our
revolutionary ranks that achieve only victory and glory, always inspiring us to
fresh victories.
Forward
towards the final victory!